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Libraries Are For Everyone

One of the bestest-best things that has happened as a result of having this blog is that I get to connect with librarians from all over the world. It’s just flat-out awesome. And sometimes those connections lead to a collaboration like what just recently happened with Julie Syler and Ashley Jones from the Saline County Library in Benton, Arkansas. They were preparing for National Library Legislative Day, and wanted to use my images. One thing led to another and we ended up making some pretty sharp-looking images for the occasion. (coughHUMBLEBRAGcoughcough)

Because we all love to share, we decided to post our creations here for anyone/everyone to use!

Without further ado – click on, download, and use any or all of the following images:

There you have it: something that I would not have done if someone hadn’t reached out to me! (hint-hint eyebrow wiggle)

I’d love to know if you or your library end up using any or all of these signs either in the comments here, or by emailing me at hafuboti@gmail.com. Otherwise, I just plan on making high-pitched EEP! noises if/when I come across one of these in the wild (like as a profile pic or some such thing).

A NOTE: I am slowly working on getting my artwork uploaded onto the Wikimedia Commons for people to find it easier all the while making all of it “officially” licensed. That said – my entire blog here is under a Creative Commons Attribute/Share Alike license – so know that I both want and encourage everyone to download, share, modify, and have fun with my work!

I also want to reiterate what I’ve stated in the past since I can’t make it an exception within the license: I do not want my name (given or business) on my minimalist art. It sort of ruins the clean lines and elegance. Just don’t tell people that you’re the creator – I’m fine with you crediting it to “an awesome Punk Rock Book Jockey blogger” if you can’t recall either of my names. Or write by Hafuboti on the back in pencil if you’re worried about it. Seriously. Have fun.

I plan on putting this note on the bottom of all of my Libraries Are For Everyone posts so if you’ve read the above paragraph once, then you won’t need to again (unless you really want to).

Yay! Love, love, love the message and your art. Thank you! We will be using these graphics in English, Spanish, Russian, and Japanese on Facebook and Twitter. Our library, Vernon Area Public in Lincolnshire, Illinois, serves a diverse population that includes many Hindi, Mandarin, and Korean speakers as well. Thanks again!

That’s so wonderful to know! If any of your patrons would like to see their languages represented, then please send their translations to me! I’m awaiting a Korean version, so know that that might be coming in the near future! :)

Sharing these wonderful images on fb here: fb.me/librariansforrefugees
Also on twitter with hashtag #librariansforrefugees and #online17 (ALIA Online Conference currently on in Sydney, Australia)
Thank you so much for creating and sharing. Amazingly wonderful.

Thank you so much for doing this. I shared this blog with my librarian friends. I hope they put your posters up. If your library is doing anything focusing on immigrant fiction, please email me. I’ll like to send you a (free) copy of my first book which is about the American immigrant experience (it was shortlisted for a couple of international prizes, so it’s not too crappy). You can either keep it for yourself, put it in the library as a donation, or just pass it on to someone who might like to read this kind of thing. Consider it my small contribution to your effort :)

PLEASE let us know when this is done! I was trying to figure out how to translate it yesterday – apparently google translate is super wrong for Amharic. All I got so far is ቤተ መፃህፍት የህዝብ but i think that just means public libraries :-( Thank you for all of these – I have made a display right when you walk into our library with a bunch of them. you are awesome!

Thank you! I am hoping for Amharic too – I couldn’t figure out how to translate the phrase and google was really off. All I got that I think is correct is ቤተ መፃህፍት የህዝብ but I think that just means public libraries. I put up a display with your artwork in the main lobby of our library. THANK YOU!

I am a former school librarian, now retired, and I absolutely love these posters and would have been thrilled to use them in my libraries. Anyway, I still know lots of people in the profession, so I have publicised them in a post which will be published tomorrow evening at https://thelibrainretired.wordpress.com/

Yes you can! My entire blog is under a Creative Commons share-alike license, so you can use and/or modify then use anything on there with my okily-dokily. That includes fundraising ::wiggles eyebrows::

If you can get me a Filipino translation from a native speaker (not just Google Translate) then I’ll make a set! I’m also seeing if I can work with Mango Languages for more translations – I should know by tomorrow if this partnership is going to happen.

Thanks so much for the great posters! We printed 10 and added them to our bulletin board which also features a giant world map. When customers tell us that they come from another country we put a flag pin on the map. https://shakerlibrary.org/our-global-community/

Hi, Rebecca! If you’d be able to get me the translations (and how I can break up the words to be above and below the images), then I will happily makes signs in both of those languages. Send me an email at hafuboti@gmail.com and I can give you an approximate timeframe :)